So someone in the comments asked me how I write and use scripts for my YouTube videos. So a super short video today about scripts. Now it's nothing special that I do, but I guess that I've developed my own personal techniques and tricks.
First of all, I don't use a teleprompter. Now there's nothing wrong with using one of course, but I don't and well I'm used now to recording videos without a teleprompter. But again, nothing wrong with using one.
That's a choice you have to make. Okay, and then the scripts. I do write scripts, but how do I use them? How do I read them? Well, when I started my YouTube channel, I wrote a script for every video.
Like every word, every sentence I wrote down. But I never read the script. And I also wrote everything down like I speak, in spoken language, if that makes sense. So with all the stop words and the ums and the uh and everything, yeah.
And I still do it that way. And then I always had my laptop with the script in front of me. I memorized a sentence or a few sentences.
And then I reproduce those sentences in front of the camera. Now, back then I reproduced them exactly like I wrote them down. Literally. Exactly the same way. These days, usually when I start talking, it comes out a bit different, you know, because of the moment.
And I mean, in my brain things change, I guess. But it's still there. It's there right now.
But there was one big problem back then with that technique. And that's that you have the whole script in front of you and you read and reproduce a few sentences. But then, of course, you have to read and reproduce the next sentence. part and I don't know I always felt some kind of pressure because even though I think it's okay to have jump cuts I don't want them to be too in your face if you know what I mean and so whenever I started memorizing the next part I I always had to think about the position of my hands, my head, where I was in the frame, so that the jump cut wouldn't be too in your face.
And it gave me so much pressure. So it wasn't ideal. It worked, but not ideal. But okay, these days I do it differently. I made it a bit easier on my brain, on the pressure.
So first of all, I don't write entire scripts anymore for every video. If it's a, I don't know, a rant video like last video, then I just write down keywords, the topics, the things, things I want to talk about, I build the content with keywords. And then usually it becomes a more spontaneous video, you know, because your brain does things and well, yeah, you know how it goes.
But if it's a very specific topic, a very technical topic, for example, then I still write down every single sentence in spoken language, of course. And that's because, yeah, I'm not a native English speaker. So those difficult words, technical words, they don't come to me that fast and so I don't want to like start thinking when I'm recording the video so I want to write down everything first before I start recording the video. Then it's also already you know in my head like the difficult words so I write down every sentence like I did when I started my channel but and this is the difference I write everything down with the b-roll already in mind so when the script is finished I highlight the parts where I'm gonna put b-roll usually in yellow. And so yeah, when I'm sitting here, the script is right there, I can memorize a part, I read what I need to say, what I want to reproduce.
And like I said, most of the time I don't reproduce it exactly as I wrote it down, but close enough. But now there's none of that pressure, because I know that I can memorize a small part and then there's going to be b-roll. And you know, sometimes I can do an entire part, until the b-roll in one go. No jump cuts or nothing.
And then when there's b-roll, you don't see me, so it doesn't matter if there's any jump cuts or anything. And then next is another small part, until the next b-roll, and that's how I record the video. And it takes a while.
a lot of that pressure because there's not like an entire blank white script it's filled with yellow parts and those yellow parts they peace of mind yeah that's how I write and use scripts these days for my YouTube videos I hope it helps thank you so much for watching and see you in the next one